Built on LinuxCOE a powerful set of tools recently open sourced by Hewlett Packard, Instalinux makes installing Linux easier than ever. Typically, installing Linux means donwloading (or buying) one or more ISO images, and then clicking through the install screens. In an effort to make Linux installs easier, some smart folks at HP developed LinuxCOE, where a user could choose some basic options through a web interface, and a small (30MB or less) ISO image is generated that can be used for a "hands-free" installation using either Kickstart, AutoYAST, or the Debian Preseed autoinstallers. That code has been released as an Open Source project, and the installer component is now available through a free web site, Instalinux.
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, Jan 28 2006 10:06 AM
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Posted 29 January 2006 - 11:00 AM
Karl thanks for this mate, this is great news
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Posted 29 January 2006 - 01:24 PM
Wow! Think windows will follow suit??
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Posted 29 January 2006 - 04:33 PM
Well in a sense Windows was there first, using programs like Nlite etc. Allow one to customise everything from what is installed to installing its self automatically.
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Posted 29 January 2006 - 04:49 PM
Linoman, on Jan 29 2006, 10:33 AM, said:
Well in a sense Windows was there first, using programs like Nlite etc. Allow one to customise everything from what is installed to installing its self automatically.
True, but it is us the consumers who built nLite to make it easier and faster to install. MS would never do this for us.
I love nLite, just made a new cd the other day with the latest patches!
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Posted 29 January 2006 - 07:52 PM
That is true, it is us the consumer who built apps like nLite, but I guess Linux is a way is built buy us as well?
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Posted 30 January 2006 - 08:12 AM
I think this takes away the rumour that Linux is hard to install.
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Posted 13 February 2006 - 12:28 AM
not for me. I'm a Linux die-hard. I love installing Gentoo by now, big fan of all the options I can choose.
It's for a starter, but sadly, not for the more experienced Linux user I think. Not that I've tested, but it sounds like I don't even have to...
It's for a starter, but sadly, not for the more experienced Linux user I think. Not that I've tested, but it sounds like I don't even have to...
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 09:16 AM
I have got to try this, gonna try this with Suse 10
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 11:55 AM
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Nope, indeed, no Gentoo support, bummer, I'd really like to have that simplified by such a thing
Nope, indeed, no Gentoo support, bummer, I'd really like to have that simplified by such a thing
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 12:02 PM
*slightly off topic* I once tried to install Gentoo Linux cough cough that was a mess up.
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Posted 18 February 2006 - 12:03 PM
Well good luck man
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